The safest, most effective and efficient way to release stubborn access covers
CoverUp Key has been designed and manufactured for the specific purpose of releasing stuck or seized manhole and inspection covers.
It is widely used by companies keen to utilise best practice and get covers up safely and quickly.
When work crews encounter a stuck or seized cover, they usually attempt to move them with ad-hoc and unsafe methods. Download our Whitepaper to see how you can reduce risk and improve efficiency by incorporating the CoverUp Key into best practice and a safer system of work. It pays for itself as soon as you need it.
Benefits
Benefit by adopting an industry best practice
If you or your contractors lift manhole or inspection covers, you will encounter stuck or seized lids. Without a robust approach to working methods and appropriate tool selection acceptable to the workforce, you are exposed to risk. Incorporate the CoverUp Key as part of your procedures for your workforce or contractors and reap the benefits of a safe, effective and efficient solution.
Safe
The CoverUp Key can be used by the operator in a safer working position, avoiding unnecessary bending or twisting. Significant numbers of injuries in industry are associated with manual handling. Around a third of self-reported work-related ill health is accounted for by musculoskeletal disorders. Incorporate the CoverUp key into your approved methods for dealing with stuck or seized covers and reduce the risk of injury to workers from hazardous manual handling to as low as reasonably practicable.
Effective
Our customers have told us that the CoverUp Key is effective in 95% of cases where stubborn covers have been encountered. Other tools are not designed to deliver an upward impact force which is needed to unstick stubborn lids, whereas this is the sole purpose of the CoverUp Key. It isn’t for lifting heavy weights, it is designed for breaking the seal of stubborn and stuck manhole covers. The patented slide-hammer action is key to this design – use the right tool for the right job.
Efficient
Workers don’t know they have a stuck cover until they have already failed to lift it using ineffective methods. Trying to release a cover with increasingly heavy-duty tools takes more and more time. When there is a tool which is designed for this job, it will either release the lid or the lid is too stuck and will need to be dug out or smashed in and replaced. Don’t waste time on ‘maybe’ actions. Even removing stuck covers successfully using hand tools is very time consuming. It isn’t uncommon to spend up to an hour with hammer and chisel – the right tool releases the cover in a fraction of the time.
Cost effective
What does a replacement manhole cost? What is the hourly cost of a work crew? The cost of a CoverUp Key is covered the first time you encounter a situation where you need it. Equip every crew or van with the tool and measure the positive impact in real terms. Whichever metric you use, the Coverup Key will deliver – increased Health & Safety provision, reduction in remedial cover replacement/repairs, reduction in delayed jobs. If the CoverUp Key is not part of your defined safe working methods and practices, you are missing out – buy yours now or contact us today.
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TESTIMONIALS
FM Conway
"After opening the packaging, it was immediately obvious that improvements had been made to the design of the product, now allowing two different handle heights to accommodate the differences in the operational teams. This now makes the CoverUp key more universally usable! I am extremely happy with improvements that have made to the CoverUp key, particularly the effectiveness of lifting heavy manhole covers safely and in the correct posture."
